US couple who bid for pig at auction to rescue it find they were buying its meat

Owners of animal sanctuary bought swine at South Florida Fair used to teach teens animal husbandry but could not stop slaughter

A Florida couple who won a pig at a state fair auction, intending to save it from the slaughterhouse, discovered the animal would be killed anyway and they had spent $4,700 on its meat.

Meg and Eric Weinberger, who run the Rescue Life sanctuary in Palm Beach Gardens, insist officials from the South Florida Fair gave no notification that they were bidding in a “terminal” auction of livestock raised solely for processing.